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Gael Kakuta poised for Chelsea debut against Wolves

Carlo Ancelotti says Kakuta is best teenager he's seen • Ban for allegedly breaking transfer rules lifted by Fifa Carlo Ancelotti may today hand a Premier League debut to the best teenage footballer he has ever seen, a player...

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History? It's history

If the past is another country, Ed Balls has just confiscated the passports of our schoolchildren Ed Balls has announced that primary school history is to be subsumed into an "area of learning" called "historical, geographical...

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Author, author: Michael Moorcock

This past year or two I've been revisiting what you might call my cultural roots. Because I was distracted almost daily by treatment for a wounded foot and unable to work much, I began re-reading the PG Wodehouse, Edgar Rice...

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Oxbridge is clearly guilty of pursuing excellence

Oxbridge demands very high A-level passes and produces many students with good degrees, very few of whom drop out. Where is the problem, wonders Simon Heffer. Something called the Higher Education Policy Institute clearly has...

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PM's cabinet meets in Nottingham

Prime Minster Gordon Brown and his top team of ministers have travelled to Nottingham for a Cabinet meeting. Mr Brown took questions from an invited audience at the Albert Hall ahead of the meeting. As part of the visit,...

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Creationism could be taught in schools under Tories, claims Ed Balls

Tom Baldwin, Chief Reporter Conservative plans to grant schools freedom from central control risk bringing the creationist doctrines of a “Religious Right” into the classroom, the Government warned last night. Ed Balls, the...

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Brian Viner: Sorry, Roy, but Ireland played like superstars

The furore concerning the Thierry Henry handball has moved into a new dimension of weirdness, with the player himself agreeing that the controversial World Cup qualifier should be replayed, while former Ireland captain Roy...

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Matalan bidding war hots up

Matalan has attracted interest from at least five major buy-out firms as it moves towards a £1.5 billion auction, according to reports. Initial bids for the discount clothing retailer have apparently been submitted by global...

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Politicians need to Net mums' votes

HERE are some examples of the stories and opinions that keep web discussion group Netmums.com buzzing... ON Coleen Rooney's night out, leaving baby Kai at home... EmmaP(324): OMG, shock horror, she's having a night out! She's a...

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Yorks MP: We can't win with Brown

Len Tingle Editor, Politics Show for Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and the North Midlands A Yorkshire Labour MP says Gordon Brown is now a liability and must go before the general election. Colin Challen who has represented Morley...

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